急求一篇关于中国富二代和官二代现象的英语文章

急求一篇关于中国富二代和官二代现象的英语文章
急求一篇关于中国富二代和官二代现象的英语文章

急求一篇关于中国富二代和官二代现象的英语文章
((CHINA's bitter joke My father is Li Gang!))
BAODING,China 鈥 One night in late October,a college student named Chen Xiaofeng was in-line skating with a friend on the grounds of Hebei University in central China.They were gliding past the campus grocery when a Volkswagen sedan raced down a narrow lane and struck them head-on.
The impact sent Ms.Chen flying and broke the other woman鈥檚 leg.The 22-year-old driver,who was intoxicated,tried to speed away.Security guards intercepted him,but he was undeterred.He warned them:鈥淢y father is Li Gang!鈥
鈥淭he two girls were motionless,鈥 one passer-by that night,a student who identified himself only by his surname,Duan,said this week.鈥淭here was a small pool of blood.鈥 The next day,Ms.Chen was dead.
Chen Xiaofeng was a poor farm girl.The man accused of killing her,Li Qiming,is the son of Li Gang,the deputy police chief in the Beishi district of Baoding.The tale of her death is precisely the sort of gripping socio-drama 鈥 a commoner grievously wronged; a privileged transgressor pulling strings to escape punishment 鈥 that sets off alarm bells in the offices of Communist Party censors.And in fact,party propaganda officials moved swiftly after the accident to ensure that the story never gained traction.
Curiously,however,the opposite has happened.A month after the accident,much of China knows the story,and 鈥淢y father is Li Gang鈥 has become a bitter inside joke,a national catchphrase for shirking any responsibility 鈥 washing the dishes,being faithful to a girlfriend 鈥 with impunity.Even the government鈥檚 heavy-handed effort to control the story has become the object of scorn among younger,savvier Chinese.
鈥淭here was a little on the school news channel at first,鈥 one Hebei University student who offered only his surname,Wang,said in an interview last week.鈥淏ut then it went completely quiet.We鈥檙e really disappointed in the press for stopping coverage of this major news.鈥
In many ways,the Li Gang case,as it is known,exemplifies how China鈥檚 propaganda machine 鈥 able to slant or kill any news in the age of printing presses and television 鈥 is sometimes hamstrung in the age of the Internet,especially when it tries to manipulate a pithy narrative about abuse of power.
鈥淔requently we鈥檒l see directives on coverage,but those directives don鈥檛 necessarily mean there is no coverage,鈥 David Bandurski,an analyst at the University of Hong Kong鈥檚 China Media Project,said in an interview.鈥淭hey鈥檙e not all that effective.鈥
鈥淐ensorship is increasingly unpopular in China,鈥 he added.鈥淲e know how unpopular it is,because they have to keep the guidelines themselves under wraps.鈥
A gadfly blog,sarcastically titled Ministry of Truth,has begun to puncture the veil surrounding censorship,anonymously posting secret government directives leaked by free-speech sympathizers.According to the blog鈥檚 sources,the Central Propaganda Bureau issued a directive on Oct.28,10 days after the accident,鈥渆nsuring there is no more hype regarding the disturbance over traffic at Hebei University.鈥
On that same day,censors prohibited reporting on six other incidents.One involved another girl鈥檚 death in police custody.Others included an investigation of a Hunan Province security official,the sexual dalliance of a Maoming vice mayor,the abandonment of closed pavilions at Shanghai鈥檚 World Expo and the increasing censorship of Internet chat rooms.
But the Li Gang case was hard to suppress,partly because it personified an enduring grievance:the belief that the powerful can flout the rules to which ordinary folk are forced to submit.Increasingly,that grievance focuses on what Chinese mockingly call the 鈥済uan er dai鈥 and 鈥渇u er dai鈥 鈥 the 鈥渟econd generation,鈥 children of privileged government officials and the super-rich.
Realizing the delicacy of the matter,the government tried to shape public reaction in more ways than by simply restricting coverage.After Internet bulletin boards began buzzing with outrage,China鈥檚 national television network,CCTV,broadcast an Oct.22 interview with Li Gang and his son,filled with effusive apologies for the accident.On Oct.24,the news media reported that Li Qiming,who had been detained by the police the day after the accident,had been arrested.
Police regulations ostensibly bar interviews with detainees.A Baoding police spokeswoman who identified herself as Ms.Zhou said in an e-mail that the network obtained the interview because it had been approved by the local party propaganda office.
Ms.Chen鈥檚 survivors were not afforded the same access.In early November,Fenghuang Satellite Television,a news channel based in Hong Kong that is available to some in mainland China,broadcast an angry interview with Ms.Chen鈥檚 brother,Chen Lin.On Nov.4,the Central Propaganda Bureau banned further news of the interview.
But censorship officials were seeking to control a message that had already spread widely.
On Oct.20,a female blogger in northern China nicknamed Piggy Feet Beta announced a contest to incorporate the phrase 鈥淟i Gang is my father鈥 into classical Chinese poetry.Six thousand applicants replied,one modifying a famous poem by Mao to read 鈥渋t鈥檚 all in the past,talk about heroes,my father is Li Gang.鈥
Copycat competitions,using ad slogans and popular song lyrics,quickly sprang up elsewhere on the Internet.In the southern metropolis of Chongqing,an artist created an installation based on the phrase.
On Nov.9,Internet chatter on the case abruptly withered.But some have continued to dodge Web censors:starting in early November,the Beijing artist and activist Ai Weiwei posted on his Web site an interview with Ms.Chen鈥檚 father and brother,who said he had rejected appeals to negotiate a settlement of the case.
鈥淚n society they say everyone is equal,but in every corner there is inequality,鈥 Chen Lin said.
鈥淗ow can you live in this country and this society without any worry?鈥 he added.
Censors repeatedly blocked the interview.Mr.Ai has played a cat-and-mouse game,moving it to a new Web site every time.
Finally,last Thursday,the Chens鈥 lawyer,Mr.Zhang,received a telephone call from his clients.鈥淭hey thanked me for all the efforts I put into this case,鈥 he said,鈥渂ut they told me they have resolved their dispute with Li Gang鈥檚 family.Half an hour after the call,they came to my office and handed in a termination contract.And after that,they just disappeared.鈥
Mr.Zhang said many of his cases involving conflicts between ordinary citizens and powerful people had ended the same way.鈥淚n current Chinese society,people put an emphasis on power more than on individual liberty,鈥 he said.
If the settlement was intended to quash chatter about the Li Gang case,it,too,seems to have accomplished the opposite.
In Baoding,Hebei University students questioned at random for an hour early this week uniformly denounced the handling of the case of Chen Xiaofeng.鈥淚鈥檇 see the case to the end,鈥 said one young man who gave only his surname,Zhang.鈥淕o through the legal process and seek justice.鈥
A second student,called Zhao,was unsparing.鈥淭his is the kind of society we live in,鈥 he said angrily.鈥淧eople who have power,they can cover up the sky.We want this settled according to the law.鈥滭br/>Li Bibo contributed research from Beijing.
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